As far as I'm concerned, these are the important factors that give rise to religious persecution - uncompromising absolutism in church teachings and how that absolutism is put to use for gain and political power.

The Christians being persecuted are the poorest people in the poorest countries.
Talk of "absolutism" and "political power" are utterly meaningless in their desperate grinding poverty and helplessness.

The indifference to their suffering by those on the left, like Jim and Musket (but not McGrath let it be said), disgraces them.

Why are no left wing publications printing reports like that in the Spectator?